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Long the hottest place on Earth, Death Valley put a sizzling exclamation point Sunday on a record warm summer that is baking nearly the entire globe by flirting with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, meteorologists said.

The year before last was New Zealand’s hottest on record, and last year began with the hottest January yet.

Last month was the hottest June on record, the EU's climate change monitoring service said on Monday, continuing a streak of exceptional temperatures that some scientists said puts 2024 on track to be the world's hottest recorded year.

If verified, it would be the hottest temperature recorded in the U.S. since 1913, and perhaps the hottest temperature ever reliably recorded in the world.

The hottest January after the second hottest year on record “is one of those indications that things are warming dramatically,” said University of Illinois climate scientist Don Wuebbles.

Various satellite-based measurements said it was anywhere from the hottest year on record to the third-hottest.

After Edinburgh registered the hottest day of 2019 at 32C (90F) - the city's hottest day ever - the heat continued overnight on Thursday.

Including last month, the five hottest Julys have occurred in the last five years, and nine of the 10 hottest have occurred since 2005, NOAA said.

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A bus catching fire in Sudan is also not out of place, considering it’s one of the hottest countries in the world, with temperatures regularly in the 40s (degrees centigrade).

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According to the U.S. Weather Service, these temperatures match 2023’s hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere.

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After the hottest June on record for the Earth, temperatures soared in south-western US states and Mexico, with reports of people dying in Phoenix after suffering burns from super-heated pavements and roads.

A heatwave affected much of the country early in the month, with temperatures peaking at 33.2C (91.76F) at Kew Gardens in London on September 9 – the hottest day of the year.

A high temperature of 26°C is still expected, as the UK braces itself for the hottest day of the year, and sunshine should return on Sunday.

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